Just watched this 5 minute video:
“Why Aren’t Games Fun Anymore?” by Jackus
And it pretty clearly lays out the Hedonic treadmill and describes depression and alienation under capitalism, even calling out the companies who are just churning out games for profit. But then he blames the games and says he doesn’t enjoy them anymore because they’re not as good.
Is that the point and I’m just taking it at face value when I shouldn’t be? It’s just super sad for someone to basically express the experience of becoming an adult under capitalism, but then completely externalize the cause.
Yeah at one point he complains about only being able to play for an hour. Playing a videogame for an hour sounds extravagant to me
I think a huge part of it is the removal of a wider community/human interactions.
People always joke about “lmao MW2 lobbies” but the reason that is such a common shared experience is the game forced you to be in game chat, you could mute sure, but the default was you were talking to other people. Now even though you are in a lobby of 8-12 people you may aswell be playing with bots. There is no human interaction
So many incredible indie games out there and yet gamers will buy ubisoft open world game number 492 and be dissapointed every time. And then proceed to blame the sjw’s or smthn idk
